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Miss Independent was more like Miss Confused when it came to her time auditioning forAmerican Idol.
Like, we were literally trying to pay our bills.
We’re like, ‘Oh, this might work.
Kelly Clarkson on ‘American Idol’ in 2002.Credit:Kevin Winter/Getty
I might meet someone or whatever.’
Nobody knew it was gonna amount to anything."
You know, and afford the deductible on my car that was bashed in that I couldn’t afford.
Kelly Clarkson on Kylie Kelce’s podcast.Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce/Youtube
So it was a different thing.
I don’t look at it like how everybody perceives it."
“I had no one,” Clarkson said.
Kelly Clarkson hosting ‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’.Ralph Bavaro/NBCUniversal via Getty
“I was the first winner.
Not to sound like whatever, it was really hard.”
“People were really mean,” Clarkson said.
“People that were really mean have been coaches.
You know what I’m saying?
Like, hated talent shows.
And they ended up being onThe Voice.”
They didn’t like it.
It took the industry kind of by storm, the talent shows.
It was a very unlikable thing in the industry concerning the populous."
